36. The Old Bucharest [mid 1930s]

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36. The Old Bucharest [mid 1930s]

Iosif Iser

1881, București - 1958, Bucureşti

Estimate:

EUR 3.000 - 5.000

Sold

EUR 2.500

References

Catalogue of the retrospective exhibition "Iser. 1881-1958", The R.P.R. Museum of Art, Bucharest, 1983.

gouache on paper, 66 x 57 cm, 66 Ã 57 cm, signed bottom right, in black, "ISER"

An adventurous spirit, Iosif Iser travelled extensively, and his journeys remained engraved in the economy of his work as views of important European geographical places. Studies conducted in the West enabled the meeting between the Romanian artist and the works of the great masters of universal art. He thus took up, in the execution of his works, the particularities of artists such as Paul Cézanne, André Derain, Théodore Rousseau, or Othon Friesz. He then directed his attention to the Oriental world of Dobrogea or Balchik and he also spent some time in the Spanish lands. In Iser’s work, the landscape acquired the virtues of an autonomous genre. The artist constantly drew inspiration from immediate reality, and he transformed the most common or unexpected things into painting ,motifs. An excellent observer, Iosef Iser refused mimesis and the Impressionist precepts adopted by his forerunners, and he proposed for his city landscapes the unhindered passage of tram cars, the streets full of people, or the fairs with its pedlars. (D.C.)

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